[announce] rsync access to public yum repos

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:31:08AM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Joseph Chen wrote:
> 
> > as a personal user, I want to know the total volume first.
> > sorry for my poor disk.

Well, like I mentioned, I would prefer that people hit our servers
directly. If somebody has a 1000 node cluster that they would like to
have a local mirror for, I don't mind, but *please* let me know so I can
include it in my stats (and mention it to your account rep... :)

So, just to be clear, there are no restrictions on rsync. I encourage
you to use it if it best fits your needs. I just dont want to suddenly
lose half my users from my stats when I am in the middle of making some
important presentations to managment.

> emoenke at ftp5:2 03:28:06 /mirr/bin > du -s /pub/linux/dell/repo/
> 2667152 /pub/linux/dell/repo/
> emoenke at ftp5:2 03:28:10 /mirr/bin > 
> 
> So it is about 2.5 GB currently, mirrored daily at ftp5.gwdg.de.

If you exclude repo/software/bios-hdrs/, you will save 1.2GB. (It isnt
RPM content)
--
Michael